Brian D. Sammon

240 Chesterfield Rd	(412) 621-3010

Pittsburgh, PA 15213	resume@brisammon.fastmail.fm

Employment Objective:

To obtain a position utilizing my skills in Unix administration and troubleshooting.

Education

Carnegie Mellon University	9/94 - 5/98

BS in Mathematics, minor in Computer Science

Employment Highlights

Freelance Computer Consultant	1/05 – Present

Performed system installation, troubleshooting, and web development services for various clients

Helpdesk Assistant	8/01 – 10/03

School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA)

Troubleshoot user problems with Unix and Windows. Wrote scripts (shell and perl) to automate and facilitate routine administrative tasks.

Computer Operator	3/00 - 8/01

School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA)

Monitored systems. Administered backups. Performed basic troubleshooting on machines that had crashed.

Consultant	8/98 - 12/98

USX Engineering Consultants (Pittsburgh, PA)

Write C program to generate input data for a new installation of i2's Supply Chain Planner software.

Remarkable Qualifications

UNIX administration, including LINUX

Installation and configuration of Apache and Samba servers

Software development in ANSI C, C++, and Perl

PC, Mac, & UNIX systems administration

Configuring TCP/IP networking

Diagnosing conflicts and errors, performing hardware testing and replacement

Novell NetWare or MS Windows network administration

System backups

system administrator software pa hardware

Systems Administrator
System backups

Brian Sammon

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